Thirty-Six XHS Business Students Qualify for BPA National Conference

Congratulations to the 36 Xavier High School business students that qualified for the Business Professionals of America (BPA) National Conference being held in Washington, D.C., from May 5 thru 10. XHS BPA competed at the state conference in Des Moines across various events for an opportunity to advance to the national conference. 
 
First Place BPA State Award Winners:
Braxton Rokos—Integrated Office Applications and Database Applications
Aidan Bostwick, Anika Munjal, Balke Bohon, Haley Cummings—Small Business Management Team
Aidan Bostwick—Interview Skills
Anika Munjal—Management, Marketing & Human Resource Concepts
Maddie Pithan—Graphic Design Promotion
Haley Cummings—Human Resource Management
Kate Hessman—Business Meeting Management Concepts
Andrew Kleineck—Advanced Spreadsheet Applications
Mia Vondracek—Fundamental Word Processing
Faith Karl—Financial Math & Analysis
Anne Baumann—Administrative Support Concepts

National Qualifiers:
Maddie Gannon, Jenaya Devereaux, Drew Dupont, Bryce Serovy (2 ^nd)—Financial Analyst Team-
Britt Bowersox, Kate Burns, Rylee Beardsworth, Stephanie Allen (2 ^nd)—Administrative Support Team
Madelyn Pithan, Michele Barnum, Rilee Lansing, Taylor Coester (2 ^nd)—Presentation Management Team
Drew Dupont (2 ^nd)—Fundamental Accounting
Josh Volk (2 ^nd)—Banking and Finance
Anne Baumann (2 ^nd)—FundamentalWord Processing
Emily Sanborn (4 ^th)—Fundamental Word Processing
Rylee Beardsworth (2 ^nd)—Intermediate Word Processing
Ellie Braksiek (3 ^rd)—Intermediate Word Processing
Kate Burns (4 ^th)—Intermediate Word Processing
Maggie Conrad (2 ^nd)—Advanced Word Processing
Sophie Schmit (2 ^nd)—Integrated Offfice Applications
Stephanie Allen (3 ^rd)—Integrated Office Applications
Mia Vondracek (3 ^rd)—Basic Office Systems & Procedures
Camille Spencer (2 ^nd)—Advanced Office Systems & Procedures
Sophie Schmit (4 ^th)—Advanced Office Systems & Procedures
Noah Fischels (5 ^th)—Advanced Office Systems & Procedures
Will Grainger (2 ^nd)—Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications
Anne Baumann (3 ^rd)—Fundamental Spreasheet Applcations
Nathan Westhoff (4 ^th)—Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications
Michele Barnum (2 ^nd)—Advanced Spreadsheet Applications
Brady Horstmann (3 ^rd)—Advanced Spreadsheet Applications and (2 ^nd) Database Applications
Drew Dupont (5 ^th)—Advanced Spreadsheet Applications
Quinn Laurent (3 ^rd)—Database Applications
William Grainger (4 ^th)—Database Applications
Jake Dougherty (5 ^th)—Database Applications
Zach Noonan (4 ^th)—Legal Office Procedures
Aidan Bostwick (2 ^nd)—Business Law & Ethics
Evelyn Spencer (2 ^nd)—Fundamental Desktop Publishing
Madelyn Pithan (3 ^rd)—Fundamental Desktop Publishing
Stephanie Allen (5 ^th)—Fundamental Destktop Publishing
Rilee Lansing (2 ^nd)—Graphic Design Promotion and (5th)—Digital Publishing
Kate Hessman (2 ^nd)—Advanced Interview Skills
Jenaya Devereaux (2 ^nd)—Human Resource Management
Anika Munjal (3 ^rd)—Human Resource Management and (3 ^rd) Prepared Speech
 
Open Event Award Winners:
Aidan Bostwick (5 ^th)—Management, Marketing & Human Resource Concepts
Maggie Conrad (3 ^rd)—Financial Math & Analysis
Nathan Westhoff (4 ^th)—Financial Math & Analysis
Drew Dupont (2 ^nd)—Administrative Support Concepts
Andrew Keineck (2 ^nd)— Information Technology Concepts (3rd)—Comnputer Programming Concepts
Michele Barnum (2 ^nd)—Digital Cpommunications & Design Concepts
Anika Munjal (5 ^th)—Business Meeting Management Concepts
Stephanie Allen (2 ^nd)—Digital Marketing Concepts
Megan Hentges (3 ^rd)—Digital Marketing Concepts
 
The following students received recognition by earning an honorable mention at
the state competition:
Julia Shoger, Megan Hentges, Lucas Lowder, Carter Diebold, Jack Goldsmith, Amber Latteyer, Riley Braksiek, Jessica Lyon, Ella Tallett, and Eddy Rodriguez.